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incontrollable

incontrollable adjective: uncontrollable.

Adjective

incontrollable (comparative more incontrollable, superlative most incontrollable)

  1. (archaic) uncontrollable
    • Set upon his will as the one law of Nature; storming forward with incontrollable violence: a very whirlwind of a man.1728, Thomas Carlyle, History Of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Volume IV. (of XXI.)
    • They had tasked our improved capacity for bearing annoyances ever since we first set foot in Sicily; but here they are perfectly incontrollable, stinging and buzzing at us without mercy or truce, not to be driven off for a second, nor persuaded to drown themselves on any consideration.1844, Various, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXLV. July, 1844. Vol. LVI.

Forms of incontrollable

comparativemore incontrollable
superlativemost incontrollable

Origin of incontrollable

From in- + controllable.

Questions about incontrollable

What does incontrollable mean?
Incontrollable means uncontrollable.
What part of speech is incontrollable?
Incontrollable is an adjective.

Words near incontrollable in the dictionary

  1. incontinuous
  2. incontracted
  3. incontractile
  4. incontradictable
  5. incontravertable
  6. incontrollable
  7. incontrollably
  8. incontrovertibilities
  9. incontrovertibility
  10. incontrovertible
  11. incontrovertibleness

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